[Talk-us] Bus Route Mapping in Baltimore

[Elliott Plack]

Just an FYI/general info announcement. I'm working with fellow mapper 
MDroads <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/mdroads>   (and any other OSM
editors of course) to map bus routes of Maryland Transit Administration bus
lines throughout the Baltimore region of Maryland.

I'm doing my best to adhere to
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport though the relations for
stops are *very* tedious. Therefore, phase one has been getting the route
relations mapped. Once complete, I'll look at adding bus stops as
public_transport=platform. I made a non-OSM map of all the stops from an MTA
dataset but many of the data points are quite far off and are generally
unsuitable for OSM. ( my map is on my blog
<http://www.elliottplack.com/2012/10/map-of-all-mta-maryland-stops.html>  )
The stop data is utilized by Google Maps for its transit routing, and as a
transit rider, I often find the inaccuracy of the data annoying. The data is
from Trapeze, a bus routing product, and is not considered accurate by the
MTA for map purposes.

I've added more to the wiki for any interested parties at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Baltimore,_Maryland/Bus_Routes

Explore the routes on the OSM slippy map at
http://osm.org/go/ZZfUax2?layers=T



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